Adjustable panty skirt



July 7, 1959 D. D. FOX

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2 Claims. (Cl. 2-212) My invention relates to an improvement inadjustable garments and in particular to an adjustable combination ofskirt and pants. My purpose is to provide a combination of skirt andpants which is suflicien-tly adjustable to enable it to meet a widerange of requirements as to size and shape. I achieve this purpose byproviding means for adjusting the garment in several ways at severalpoints, and by providing an extra skirt portion which can be readilyattached to the skirt and detached from it.

The preferred embodiment of my invention is shown in the drawings, ofwhich Fig. 1 is a partially cut away front elevational View; Fig. 2 is asectional view on the lines 2-2 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a sectional viewalong the lines 3--3 of Fig. 1.

As shown in Fig. 1, the preferred embodiment consists of pants with atwaist 11, legs 12 and 13 and a crotch 13a. The pants 10 have slits 14and 15 extending from the waist halfway down the side. At one side ofeach slit are buttons 16 and on the other are button holes 17.Adjustment at the waist is accomplished by choosing the proper buttonand the proper button hole through which to insert it. The pants legs 12and 13 have draw strings in the form of ribbons 18 and 19 at the bottomwhich can be drawn tight to secure the pants to the leg of the wearer.Between the waist 11 and the crotch 13a is a circumferential tuck 20which consists of cloth folded back upon itself and then back again asshown in Fig. 2. The tuck 20 is held by several series of stitches 21,22 and 23, each of which can be let out to provide a differentadjustment in length. A tubular portion of cloth 30, the skirt portion,is secured by stitching to the outer surface of the inner fold of thetuck 20 to form a skirt. The portion 30 has a hem 31 as shown in Fig. 3,and secured to it by stitching at the hem is a short portion of cloth 32with vertical slits 33. Attached to the portion 32 is a tubular portion34 of any desired length, having vertical slits 35 superimposed on slits33. The portion 34 is attached to the portion 32 by a ribbon 36 threadedthrough the slits 33 and 35. It can be readily detached or attached byremoving the ribbon from or threading it through the slits 33 and 35.

I claim:

1. An adjustable garment including a pair of pants having a waist, acrotch, and a circumferential tuck be tween the waist and the crotch,the tuck being secured by a plurality of rows of stitching extendingalong the circumference of the tuck so that a row of stitching can beremoved and the pants thereby adjusted in length between the crotch andthe waist, and a skirt attached to the pants between the tuck and thecrotch adjacent to and beneath the tuck.

2. An adjustable garment including a pair of pants having a waist, acrotch, and a circumferential tuck between the waist and the crotch, thetuck being secured by a plurality of rows of stitching extending alongthe circumference of the tuck so that a row of stitching can be removedand the pants thereby adjusted in length between the crotch and thewaist, a skirt attached to the pants between the tuck and the crotchadjacent to and beneath the tuck, and means for adjusting thecircumferential size of said garment including a slit at a side of thegarment at the waist and a plurality of means for securing the materialon one side of the slit in overlapped relation with respect to thematerial on the other side, said means difiering in distance from theslit.

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